I want to paste without formatting. Specifically, I want to copy text from Word to a document I've opened in Open Office.
Suddenly, this gives me all kind of problems. Is this due to a recent opdate in Word 2013, and how it handles the clipboard?

Windows 8.1, Word 2013, OoO 4.0.
I select a word in Word. I copy it (CTRL+C). I go to Open Office Writer and press CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste without formatting: nothing happens.
I go to another application (Notepad, a rich text editor, doesn't matter wich) and press CTRL+V there: the word is pasted alright. So it is on the clipboard.

Why doesn't it want to be copied to Open Office? At least not without formatting?

It's not consistent: I copy all text in the document in Word, I paste that into Open Office: it works. I select another word: it works. I select another word: it doesn't work.

It may seem as though this is an Open Office problem. But actually I get the feeling it's something to do with the way Office deals with the clipboard.

(I find the recent interface very opaque. There's no more "help>about" in the menu, so I have no idea where I can find detailed information about the exact version number of my Word installation. And there's that OneNote application that installs itselfs and starts automatically at startup and I don't see any menu option to turn off this automatic startup, even though I never use it.)

MTIA.

The problem may, of course, have nothing to do with either application, but perhaps with another app that periodically clears the clipboard. I'd suggest checking what 3rd-party apps are running in each app and also what background processes are running in Windows.

Regarding the Word version details, see File>Help>About.

As for disabling OneNote, see, for example: http://www.ehow.com/how_6826398_disa...t-onenote.html

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Thank you. I see the control over what starts up at startup has moved to the task manager in Windows 8. That's an improvement.

The problem occured only in Open Office and I get the feeling it's an Open Office problem, witness this thread I started about it:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/foru...hp?f=7&t=69001

A check of Open Office Writer indicates that the Ctrl+Shift+V is not a built-in shortcut for paste unformatted, unless you know otherwise. I would think this lies at the base of the problem.

Hm. Not what I've been used to seeing! just don't ask me why the short-cut is labelled in French …

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A couple of thoughts:

• Control over how text is pasted lies in the application receiving the text.
• The Office Clipboard generally remains open so long as there is any office application open (including Outlook). Closing all Office applications purges the Office Clipboard although not the Windows clipboard. Clearing the Office Clipboard also clears the Windows clipboard.

You mentioned Open Office, but your screen shot is for LibreOffice. They are not the same.

Good point :-}

In LibreOffice Writer, you use Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V to paste the contents of the clipboard as unformatted text.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]